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The first couple of days of this cruise have been strange compared with the others we've done.75% of passengers from Sydney are doing the Round Australia cruise so were settling into the ship. Some may not have been on Coral before so are learning where everything is. The rest were doing either the two day or five day Sydney to Brisbane options so were trying to pack as much as they could into their cruise before disembarking this morning. Of course after the last few cruises we already have our shipboard routine sussed so we settled back in very quickly. It was weird last night though. For the first time that we saw the Good Spirits Bar was empty at 10pm. I hope that isn't going be the pattern for the whole cruise. There was a fair bit going on in the theatre (Encore), Universe Lounge and the other bars so that might be the reason.
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We've done 40 days on Coral so far and have only had a couple of "misses" with the MDR meals. We are "foodies" and enjoy a variety of cuisines. I don't expect three hat restaurant cuisine on a cruise ship, it is essentially mass catering cuisine but the variety is excellent and we've rarely had issues with dishes coming out cooler than expected. However there is a higher risk of that if you are at a large shared table as the waiters collect all the dishes for a particular course at once and may have to wait to fill some orders. Choosing a table for two may be why our meals always come out hot. To put it another way if the food wasn't good on Coral Princess we wouldn't still be on the ship! 😊
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Coral seems to have a higher percentage of two seater tables than other Princess ships I've been on. I think they may have swapped out some six seater tables and replaced them with two two-seaters close together. We actually like those tables - they are served as separate tables as the two tables fill at different times but there is the opportunity to chat with the people on the other table. In other words you get the advantages of a shared table but without the slower service disadvantage. We met a lovely couple last night and ended up chatting for a couple of hours.
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Don't worry, Don. Because of the short time we had between cruises (three days) we had real problems updating things both in the app and personalizer. I gave up in the end. The lovely check-in staff just went through everything on their device in just a few minutes. The only thing they couldn't do was link Rolf's onboard account to mine - somehow it had unlinked itself. That was easily fixed on onboard with a quick trip to Guest Services.
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Princess Shareholder question for Aussies
OzKiwiJJ replied to Cbtours's topic in Australia & New Zealand Cruisers
The OBC has already been put on our account. Very efficient! -
Princess Shareholder question for Aussies
OzKiwiJJ replied to Cbtours's topic in Australia & New Zealand Cruisers
Don't panic if you don't get a response before your cruise. Just take your confirmation of shares to Guest Services once onboard and they will sort it out for you. We did that this morning because we hadn't had time to send in an email as we only booked this cruise a week ago. The OBC should be on our account tomorrow.